In writing about autonomous cars, we tend to discuss the advances in (or shortcomings of) self-driving technology. We make assessments based on how well (or how poorly) autonomous vehicles have learned to drive like humans.

In writing about autonomous cars, we tend to discuss the advances in (or shortcomings of) self-driving technology. We make assessments based on how well (or how poorly) autonomous vehicles have learned to drive like humans.

Worried about your car being hacked? The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are, too, and they've published some handy tips to keep you and your ride safe.

Worried about your car being hacked? The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are, too, and they've published some handy tips to keep you and your ride safe.

Here at The Car Connection, we rate and review more than 250 new vehicles every year, across six categories including performance. From that group of new and updated vehicles, only a few receive a perfect score of 10 for performance.

That ultimate rating reveals the ultimate performance cars--even those that don't break earth-shattering records in every category. Some of them we choose because they're singularly brilliant--or even brilliant at their attainable price.

This year, the vehicles that have earned our highest performance score include some of the most desirable new vehicles on the road--everything from Audis and BMWs to a pair of rear-drive sports cars without the benefit of a Ferrari pedigree. Each is remorselessly entertaining to drive, even if there's no massive-displacement V-8 underhood, or track-ready tires underfoot.

According to our editors, these are best performance vehicles of 2015:

In either body style, BMW's archetypal M cars love quaffing long uphill runs at the horizon with gusto, shaving a hundred miles per hour undramatically off with the carbon-ceramics, and settling firmly and predictably into uphill 30-degree bends without a knee bent.

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